Ultra-Conservative Cato

by Editor
February 11, 2014 at 10:16 am

http://www.smartertimes.com/1130/ultra-conservative-cato

A Times news article about a Chinese dissident, Xia Yeliang, joining the Cato Institute reports:

The political labels of Professor Xia and the Cato Institute, in Washington, are strikingly different. Professor Xia got into trouble in China for being too liberal, while the institute is known as libertarian or — less to its liking — ultraconservative. But the professor and Cato officials say they have the same focus.

The "is known" is a classic Times passive construction. "Is known" by whom? By left-wing Times editors and reporters who think any point of view a scintilla to the right of their own Upper West Side ultraleftism qualifies as "ultraconservatism."